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Church of Sweden to Neuter God?????

he Church of Sweden is urging its clergy to use gender-neutral language when referring to the supreme deity, refraining from using terms like "Lord" and "He" in favor of the less specific "God."

The move is one of several taken by the national Evangelical Lutheran church in updating a 31-year-old handbook setting out how services should be conducted in terms of language, liturgy, hymns and other aspects.

1 Tim 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.

Martin Luther would be spinning in his grave if he cared about what's happening on earth.

This has occurred in the United Church in Canada for at least 2 decades. A hymn book from about that long ago was changed to include hymns to "mother god", and quite a few gender-specific words were removed and changed.

Sweden is behind the times.

Securely anchored to the Rock amid every storm of trial, testing or tribulation.

God is a Spirit, a spirit does not have gender. The Bible refers to God as Father, being like an expectant mother, an eagle with out-stretched wings. Jesus had gender as he was human but God, the parent of us all is not human and thus has no gender.

"Obama is not a brown-skinned, anti-war socialist who gives away free healthcare. You are thinking of Jesus." Episcopal Bishop of Arizona